jamessuckling.com, 94 points: Love the soft and velvety tannin with the milk chocolate and fruit character. Full and silky. Long and delicious. So fine. Best wine from this estate in decades. Maybe ever. Best after 2017.

jamessuckling.com, 95 points: Gorgeous ripe fruit character with loads of blueberries blackberries and flowers. Full body with velvety tannins and a fruity fresh grapefruit aftertaste. Really beautiful. Best ever from here. Best after 2018.

Wine Enthusiast, 93 points: Firmly structured dark-fruited wine very solid and dense. It has weight along with black currant fruits and acidity. It's a wine that is rich but seriously structured for aging. R.V.

Wine Spectator, 90 points: Very fresh and racy showing lemon zest and chartreuse notes along the edges of the lemon pound cake and creamed Jonagold apple core with a bouncy finish. Drink now through 2018. -JM

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Coming in at 140-grams-per-liter residual sugar, the 2009 de Fargues was picked from September 28 over three tries until October 19, a day before heavy showers curtailed the vintages. It seems to have gone into its shell...

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: Superbly ripe this wine shows upfront botrytis and honey flavors. At its core it bears opulence with depth and concentration. The open character of the wine is shot through with lemon and orange zest flavors.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: Served from an ex-chateau bottle. The 2009 Chateau d’Yquem is one showstopper of a wine and perhaps it is only in a vertical that you realize this is up there among the legendary wines of the past – the 2001 included. It...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: Clinet has been on a hot streak lately and the 2009 appears to be the greatest wine ever made at the estate surpassing even the late Jean-Michel Arcaute's monumental 1989. A blend of 85% Merlot and tiny amounts of...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The blend for the 2009 is mostly Merlot with some Cabernet Franc but hit over 14.5% natural alcohol. This is a big chewy wine made under the guidance of Hubert de Bouard. Dense ruby/purple with notes of blackberry and...

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